The Media Awareness network provides many resources for students to use to grow their understand and proficiency in utilizing the web in safe and appropriate ways. Resources for students include Passport to the Internet (grades 4-8); My World (grades 9-12); Reality Check (grade 9-12)
Get all the tools you need with their FREE Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum and Parent Media Education Program. The relevant, ready-to-use instruction helps you guide students to make safe, smart, and ethical decisions in the digital world where they live, study and play.
Blogs are for conversation... Blogs are perhaps the most powerful yet under-utilized social web based tool in our schools. From a classroom blog and individual student blogs to capture the learning narrative to group discussions, global connections and digital portfolio platforms, blogs are a versatile resource for learning.
The NBED portal provides a powerful platform for teachers and students to share and collaborate. Come see how this in house platform can support you and your students in learning.
iPads are all the rage in learning...and the world! The tablet movement is the next generation of computing devices, growing in popularity worldwide. Come see this introductory session on iPads where we will start a conversation about some of the possibilities of what these devices can do to support a new learning landscape.
The all in one device - with camera, software, hardware and output capabilities - provides the most exciting characteristic on the iPad. Come see how to take, manage, edit and export/share image or video content to your computer or the web.
As connectivity becomes uniquitous, the cloud will become more powerful as a platform for content creating, sharing and collaboration. Google's "Drive" platform allows learners to create, manage and share documents of all types, including publishing, spreadsheets and presentations in formats that are increasingly interchangeable with popular office suites.
Need to collect and manipulate data? Want to collect REAL data from individuals through a web-based survey? Google Forms allows students and teachers to design and manage their own survey tools to collect real data for classroom projects, plan school activities or register participants for professional learning. Students can survey each other or collect data from the world outside their classroom in real time.
Google's answer to skype, Google Hangout allows participants to connect 1 on 1 or in groups of up to 10 for learning. From students study groups in the evening to whole class connections for global sharing and everything in between, Create scheduled events and invite your friends. Hangout is free and powerful. Text, audio, video and screenshare are enhanced by the fun - and even some frivolity - of the Google Effects.
Socrative is a free, web-based student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.
Two dimensional optical scanning codes, QR (Quick Response) codes are designed to allow mobile devoces to quickly and easily link to web-based content. From simple audio / video links to digital scavenger hunts, QR codes allow educators and students to design interactive learning experiences and share their digital content.
Slideshare is like YouTube for Presentations, offering users the ability to upload and share publicly or privately PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios. Flickris like YouTube for photographs and is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharingapplication on the web. Show off your favourite photos and videos to the world or locate other images to use in your creations through their creative commons search.
From GPS directions in our cars to geo-tagging photographs, data-driven maps are playing an increasingly vital role in how we live and learn. There are many great mapping applications available for teachers and students. Join us as we look at Google Maps/Earth, National Geographic Maps and a few other resources to share and show learning in your classroom.
Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly. They can improve cognition by utilizing graphics to enhance the human visual system’s ability to see patterns and trends.
It isn't technology that has changed in today's connected world, but the very nature of information itself. Where information was once scarce and static, we are now challenged by a landscape where information is digital, networked and overwhelming.Finding the right information is a huge challenge. How do we teach the skills necessary for locating and harvesting information to students? What does "search" look like at both ends of the K-12 spectrum?
Media Awareness Network
Common Sense Media
Classroom Blogging
Virtual Classroom
Intro to iPads
iPads Photos and Videos
Google Drive
Google Forms
Google Hangout
Socrative
QR Codes
SlideShare and Flickr
Flickris like YouTube for photographs and is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharingapplication on the web. Show off your favourite photos and videos to the world or locate other images to use in your creations through their creative commons search.
Web based Mapping
Infographics
Effective Web Search